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Facility Focus: Aerospace
Rensselaer Engineering focuses on solving the “grand challenges” facing humanity.
Briefs: Photonics/Optics
This system can amplify a faint signal from a neighboring system even when that signal’s amplitude is as small as ten trillionths of a meter.
Briefs: Electronics & Computers
Mini-magnets could enable cloud computing systems to process data up to 100 times faster than current technologies.
Articles: Electronics & Computers
Nature-Inspired Energy Tech, Superelastic Tires, Wearable Supercapacitors, and more...
NASA Spinoff: Materials
Wool from special sheep keeps astronauts and emergency responders safe.
Articles: Mechanical & Fluid Systems
Tech Briefs spoke with NASA’s Ken Williford, Mars 2020 Deputy Project Scientist, to learn more about the science capabilities of Perseverance.
Briefs: Imaging
Optically Reconfigurable Charge-Transfer Liquid Crystals
These re-writeable materials have applications in data storage and encryption, energy transducers, and optical display technologies.
Articles: Aerospace
Perseverance will have the ability to land in more challenging terrain than Curiosity, making more rugged sites eligible as safe landing candidates.
Briefs: Materials
Heat predictably and precisely changes the surface structure of a particle of liquid metal.
Briefs: Electronics & Computers
The multitasking device could advance development of an electric circuit for faster, next-generation electronics like quantum computing technologies.
Briefs: Green Design & Manufacturing
This method of producing clean syngas could be used to develop a sustainable liquid fuel alternative to gasoline.
Q&A: Sensors/Data Acquisition
A robotic finger has a sense of touch that can be localized with high precision over a large, multi-curved surface.
Briefs: Materials
This method can be used to protect stored building materials and to remediate in-service wood and wood products.
Briefs: Energy
The flexible device harvests heat energy from the body to monitor health.
Briefs: Energy
This green process produces pristine graphene in bulk using waste food, plastic, and other materials.
Briefs: Photonics/Optics
A novel plate-cell architecture reaches the theoretical limit of performance.
Briefs: Energy
These composites could improve how unmanned vehicles dissipate energy.
Products: Materials
Industrial PCs, power modules, processor blades, and more.
5 Ws: Medical
Bacterial pathogens can live on surfaces for days. What if frequently touched surfaces, such as doorknobs, could instantly kill them off?
Articles: Test & Measurement
Learn about the four goals of the Mars 2020 mission.
Articles: Test & Measurement
Read our special series on the Mars 2020 mission, featuring interviews with NASA experts and designers of the Perseverance rover.
Briefs: Green Design & Manufacturing
This technology supports CO2 emissions reduction in cement manufacturing.
Briefs: Energy
The rainproof, stainproof technology turns clothing into self-powered remotes while turning away bacteria.
Briefs: Semiconductors & ICs
Inspired by the octopus, the structure senses, computes, and responds without any centralized processing.
Products: Electronics & Computers
The K6PM provides continuous, remote thermal monitoring of critical components such as high-voltage control panels, transformers, and hydraulic equipment.
Briefs: Transportation
A new method could enable vehicles and equipment to better withstand high temperatures, loads, and speeds.
Briefs: Semiconductors & ICs
Next-generation devices made with a “peel and stack” method could include electronic chips worn on the skin.
Briefs: Manufacturing & Prototyping
Bandages with integrated pH and temperature sensors, and electronically triggered drug release, improve healing.
Facility Focus: Software
This NASA center hosts the world’s greatest collection of wind tunnels and flight simulation facilities
Top Stories
Blog: Lighting
A Stretchable OLED that Can Maintain Most of Its Luminescence
Blog: Energy
Batteries that Can Withstand the Cold
INSIDER: Energy
Advancing All-Solid-State Batteries
Quiz: Energy
Blog: Physical Sciences
Blog: Materials
Webcasts
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